Search - Myron Walden, Darren Barrett, David Bryant :: Myron Walden Momentum

"'Momentum' is a potent modern mainstream set that takes trumpet icon Miles Davis' legendary 1960s quintet as a touchstone, but achieves reverence without sacrificing its own voiceÉWalden's writing has always demonstrated a distinctive blending of front line horns...when writing for saxophone and trumpet, as Walden does here, there remains a skillful commingling, with the horns often orbiting around each other harmonically before coming together in strong unison." "Walden deserts his usual axe in favor of tenor saxophone, proving himself as thoughtful yet fiery a player on the bigger horn as he is on alto...On it's own, 'Momentum' [is]...enough to say that Walden is back, and with a vengeance...one of the modern mainstream's most provocative saxophonists, composers and bandleaders." --John Kellman, All About Jazz Momentum is an album "uncannily evocative of the 1960s Miles Davis Quintet" with a "first rate band". --Nate Chinen, New York Times "Momentum is an album that invites the listener back, precisely because of this counterbalance of the settled and the agitated, the risky and the sureness of traditional references. Walden's stirring improvisations mirror the compositional parity. To loquacious lines that reflect the current trend of saxophonists bubbling over with harmonic, rhythmic and melodic ideas, Walden brings a wise, patient and homespun approach." --Jacob Teichroew, About Jazz